2015 highlights and awards

Highlights

  • Energy efficiency standard IS0 50001 achieved across all business lines

  • Energy use and CO2 emissions per tonne of product fall

  • Waste to landfill down by 18 per cent and by 63 per cent since 2010

  • Use of recycled planings in asphalt increased by 64 per cent

  • All operational quarries now have biodiversity action plans 

  • We recycled one million tonnes of waste, 100 times more than we sent to landfill

Areas for improvement

  • Lost time injuries and our journey to zero harm

  • Energy use and CO2 emissions reduction

  • Increased use of alternative materials in concrete

Awards

  • Mineral Products Association restoration and biodiversity awards 2015 – winner of the Cooper Heyman Cup for best restoration at Middleton Hall quarry in Staffordshire; winner of the landscape scale biodiversity award for work done at Batts Combe quarry in Somerset
  • Mineral Products Association health and safety awards 2015 –runner-up in the engineering initiatives category for crusher improvements at Cefn Mawr quarry in north Wales, and runner-up in the road risk class for a variable messaging sign developed by contracting division.
  • Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents - gold award for contracting division for the 23rd consecutive year and an order of distinction to recognise this achievement.
  • Highways England supplier recognition scheme – contracting division highly commended for collaboration with Kier Highways in Area Three.
  • The Concrete Society – highly commended for technical quality of concrete supplied to the redevelopment of Yorkshire Water’s Bridlington Pump Station.
  • British Marine Aggregate Producers' Association – ship with the best attitude award for marine archaeology for the crews of the Arco Dart.